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Hi, I need PDF creation in Rails and decided for RFPDF. Everything works quite nice the only problem is that I can''t display ä,ö,ü in the pdf documents. I found a tutorial that says that I have to create a font config file with MakeFont. I did it, but now I don''t now where to put al this files. Does anyone has experience with creating PDFs in Rails with ä,ü,ö letters? Thx

Hi, I am trying to create a pdf using ruby jasper. For this I am referring this url:- http://oldwiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/howtointegratejasperreports I have done everything whatever is in that link. Still I am not able to get the pdf. I am not getting any error in log file. My log file is:- "Processing AccountController#customer_report (for 127.0.0.1 at 2009-04-27 13:19:34) [GET]

Hello, my question is rails related though it is also somewhat specific to the prawnto plugin (installed latest version as of 2010-03-15). I would ask on a prawnto forum/list if I knew where one was. Anyhow, I''m using rails 2.3.5 (with ruby 1.8.6 patchlevel 111) in an app that is successfully using the prawnto gem (with the prawn gem version 0.7.1). I''ve got a a

Hi Guys I need help.. I want to making 1 controller for covert html to pdf.. But that html have amchart (swf). When I tried convert, the swf not loadded... Any body can help me Please???? -- Senior Rails Developer Anton Effendi - Wu You Duan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send

hi, everyone, i have googled around for some pdf generators. Found 1) PDF::Writer which is a little dated 2) Rupdf (http://scoop.simplyexcited.co.uk//2007/12/15/rupdf-simple- ruby-pdf-rails-plugin/ and http://agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins/rupdf) - it''s a little dated. Last revision was on 15th of Dec, 2007. Any recommendations for pdf generators? thank you -- You received this

Hello everyone, Has anyone linked Rails to a report generator such as Jasper Reports (http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/)? At the moment, I think I need something along these lines for a project I''m working on, so it''d be nice to know if anyone''s used it before before I bring it up as a suggestion. Doesn''t have to be JasperReports, and in fact I''d

Hello, I am working on reports now where we are using MySQL (InnoDB) and Rails 2.3.4. Tables are big and there are a lot of calculation with several big tables. Please give me some suggestions whether there any gem, plugin, articles, or techniques that allows me to create heavy reports. I am even going to use cron job that allows me to calculate some middle data in order to provide heavy

Hi folks, I am pleased to announce that Mike Milner and I have finished the Ruport Book. We have published it under our own company (Rinara Press LLC) through Lulu. With the help of the Ruport community, we''ve refined the book over the last few weeks to meet the needs of our users. We think it will be a great help to anyone trying to learn how to do reporting in Ruby / Rails using

Recently I was implementing PDF generation for a project utilizing the fantastic library Prince XML (http://www.princexml.com). I came across a blog article with a basic library and helper set for Prince (http:// sublog.subimage.com/articles/2007/05/29/html-css-to-pdf-using-ruby-on- rails), which provided a great basis. I wanted to make something a little more generalized and in-keeping the Rails

Hi all, has anyone made it already? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

anyone know to make ruport to work in rails?

Thoughts on using WickedPDF vs PDFKit vs. Prawn or others for developing forms with dynamic content? TIA, Garrett Lancaster -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to

Here''s an idea we might want to look at just after we do the alpha release: http://ruport.infogami.com/RuportDay2006 The basic premise is 24 hours of testing, debugging and coding focused on one app. They announced to the ruby mailing lists and have prizes they arranged (Could we get a sponsor? I don''t know.) Personally, I think prize money opens a can of worms. But a

Hi there, Can anybody show me (maybe copy/paste a simple code example) how to create the .pdf file from an existing (.xls) file, using the Prawn gem? Basically, I''d need the command that takes an existing (.xls) file to save it as a .pdf, afterwards. (I''m asking because the Prawn documentation at http://prawn.majesticseacreature.com/docs/ seems to be gone since quite a while -

I updated to ruby 1.8.6p111 last night and updated some gems and now mongrel doesn''t work: MacOS 10.4.10 $ ruby --version ruby 1.8.6 (2007-09-24 patchlevel 111) [i686-darwin8.10.1] $ gem list rails *** LOCAL GEMS *** rails (1.2.5, 1.2.4, 1.2.3, 1.2.2, 1.2.1, 1.2.0, 1.1.6) Here''s a simple test: $ rails test5 create ... $ cd test5 $ script/server => Booting

Browserized Styles provides a dead simple way to create browser- specific CSS code for use in a Rails application. All you need to do is create a .css file targeted to a browser by appending an underscore and identifier to the end. === Installation === script/plugin install http://svn.intridea.com/svn/public/browserized_styles === Example === Let''s say I have some complex CSS code

Hello All, I wanted to convert .html file into .pdf. is there any rails plugin ?? Thanks, Sandip R~ -- Ruby on Rails Developer http://sandip.sosblog.com http://funonrails.wordpress.com www.joshsoftware.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this

require ''prawn'' require ''prawn/core'' require ''prawn/layout'' Prawn::Document.new do |pdf| subtable = pdf.make_table([[ "foo", "bar" ], [ "baz", "bax" ]], :column_widths => [ 50, 50 ]) { column(0).background_color = "808080" cells.borders = []

Hi, Have anyone made a successful usage of Rails 2.3.3 with PrawnTo and Prawn ? I followed all the tutorials I could find on Net, but I am not able to see pdf part working. I kept getting the error "Template is missing". I do have foo.pdf.prawn. Same goes with pdf/writer as well. Thank you. Regards Balaji D Loganathan Spritle Software, http://www.spritle.com -- Posted via

I was having great success with creating PDFs with prawn, I followed Ryan Bates latest screencast. All good. Trouble is when i come to deploy the app on my webhost I ran into trouble. Rails 2.3 app. I did, "sudo rake gem unpack prawn" to freeze it in. I put the app on my webhost but it won''t start, some error saying it can''t find prawn. Any ideas? (summary: works